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Welcome to the FLOAT-YOUR-PIGMENT Newsletter #265, Online Paint-A-Longs
I have lost track of the weeks while we have been in this pandemic but I am very happy, but cautious to be teaching to live classes and small groups of people, even if we all have masks on and we have a bunch of rules to follow I still love this way of teaching face to face. The online paint-a-longs are also a lot of fun and I plan on doing them for a while yet. In today's newsletter I want to go into how you as a student can get the most out of the demo/paint-a-longs. They are
still going to be free for a while yet, so you might as well take advantage of these demos. See the Demo/Paint-a-longs here on YouTube.
Next week I will be at Dillman's for the first live in-person workshop of the year. I am so psyched about this because I love teaching workshops like Dillman's, especially since this is the first one this year. I miss them and can't wait to teach those students all the new stuff I have learned during the pandemic lock-down:)
I think there are still a few spots available... go HERE to Register. Dillman's and I have taken great measures to insure your safety... one of the safety measures is that I have had all the supplies in quarantine for the last three weeks and will be available for all the students to use so nobody has to bring their own supplies.
I don't know all of you that get my newsletter each week, but if you had gotten into the National Watercolor Societies exhibit this year, congratulations! I need to congratulate one of my friends/students that had his piece accepted into this years NWS exhibition. His name is Phil Babb... way to go, Phil, can't wait to see what you entered, congrats!
The TWSA show is hung in Kenosha but so far the museum is still closed to the public. As soon as it opens I will be setting up a date to go see the show and if anybody wants to join me for a walk through, I will ask you to meet me there on the day I decide to go. I'm guessing it will open soon so keep checking back here in my newsletter for that date and time.
Next class at the Civic Center in Libertyville will be June 25th from 1pm to 3:30pm spaces are available
Next class at the BeckerArt Gallery will be June 27th from 9am to 11:30am spaces are available
Email me at Beckerart@gmail.com for any info you may need about my classes.
It has been 14 weeks of live demos and this Thursday will be the 15th time I have done a demo paint-a-long and I have to say that they get more and more fun each week to teach. It has occurred to me that I really have never explained how these paint-a-longs work for you the student that wants to learn from painting along with me. Below I will go into how I feel the paint-a-long classes can help you in learning and what steps to follow to get the most out of the videos.
Thank you to those of you that have written to me to thank me for the lessons and a huge thank you to those that have donated funds after watching a paint-a-long. I have decided to keep on doing them because of your generous donations and also those that have bought my demos from my website HERE!
Here are a few tips and ways I think will help you get the most out of my online live demos.
The first thing you need to do is download the photo that I and you will be using for that coming Thursday. There are 2 places that you can get that photo...one place is here in this newsletter below and the other place is on the front page of my website at BeckerArt.com. I have had people ask me how do I get the photo off of your site or out of this newsletter. The answer is, find the image and click on it. It will be linked to a web
address that will take you to a large image and then when you are there do a right-click on your mouse and save it to your computer or if you are on a phone hold your finger down on the image until it pops up a link where you can download it. Then do what you normally do when drawing from the image, either print it out to draw from a photo or draw from your computer screen.
I know that many of you need to print it big so you can trace it onto the paper in which case you will need to either have a large printer or take the file to an Office Max type place and have them print it out big. Then use transfer paper under the image that you will be tracing and it will transfer your line to the watercolor paper.
Work on whatever size you feel works for you, I usually do a quarter sheet demo.
I have heard that some like to paint while I am painting and then most tell me I am to fast so they watch the demo and then do the painting either after or on another day. I recommend you do it the next day and then when you go to do it have the video ready to play it step by step. The video will usually be available after the live feed in about an hour because it has to download to their server.
When it comes to watching my videos, I try to make sure everything is adjusted on my end so if you are having problems with things like volume or speed of the video, it usually will be on your end. It wasn't like that when I first started but I have since learned a few things to keep the video flowing on my end. I have a small issue with the new microphone at the moment but that will be fixed this week. One thing that many don't know is that there are 2 places for the volume on your end...
one is on the device you are using and the other is the volume on the video you are watching in YouTube. Just because you switch your volume up on your device or computer doesn't necessarily up the volume on the YouTube video. double-check both.
Please subscribe to my BeckerArt Channel when you are on YouTube and this way they will let you know when I am on live demonstrating. I am also learning a bunch of new things about how to use YouTube and How I can get more information over to you while you are on the video page and also right in the video. Click here to subscribe to my YouTube
Channel
When the video is playing live, please feel free to ask questions and as many questions as you want. I may not answer them right away while I am demonstrating but I will go back and double-check the questions and reply back later or on another day. I also will start putting in links below the videos in the video description area if I talk of certain products in that video.
Something I will be doing really soon is starting a group on Facebook where you can then post your images to show me and others in the group and where you will also be able to ask me and others in the group questions about your painting. Right now you can just email them to me if you have questions or if you want to show me.
Thanks and see you on YouTube
David
BeckerArt WORKSHOPS and DEMOS of 2020
LIVE DEMOs Online every Thursday at 6:30pm CST at on YouTube Live ONLY
WORKSHOP Dillman's, Lac Du Flambeau, W/C, Wisconsin, June 28th to July 3rd INFO HERE
WORKSHOP Vermont Art Event, W/C& Acrylic, Burlington, Vermont, July 27th to July 31st CANCELED
WORKSHOP Thousand Island Art Center, W/C, Thousand Island, NY, August 4th to August 6th INFO HERE
WORKSHOP Goshen Painters Guild, W/C, Indiana, August 13th to August 15th INFO HERE
WORKSHOP Dillman's, Lac Du Flambeau, W/C, Wisconsin, Aug. 31st to Sept. 3rd INFO HERE
WORKSHOP Artisan Expo, W/C & Acrylics, Santa Fe, MN. Sept. 24th to Sept. 26th CANCELED
WORKSHOP Sangamon Watercolor Society, W/C, Springfield, IL. Oct. 9th to Oct. 12th INFO HERE
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Here is the Phil I was talking about above that has his painting accepted into the NWS exhibit. I haven't seen the piece he got accepted but I'm gonna guess it is spectacular. Phil is a storyboard artist like I use to be, but he is also a great watercolorist. He has taken many of my classes and I always felt he really didn't need the help, but I am always glad he takes my class to catch up on the world of storyboard art.
I will talk with Phil hopefully soon and I will post his watercolor once he shows it to me.
Congrats again Phil!
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Online Live demonstration/paint-a-longs are on YouTube
Thursday June 25th at 6:30am CST on YouTube Live
Click image to go to a large file view and then you can download it there.
I will post the demo from YouTube to Facebook the next day if you need to see it on Facebook.
Subscribe to my YouTube Channel
Daily Paintings Available
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Every day during this pandemic I plan on putting up a daily demo painting on my website that will be for sale HERE. A lot of art instructors and artist are struggling through these stay at home order times because many of our classes, workshops, paint parties, and demonstrations have been canceled, so I am starting to sell the demonstrations that I do in my classes at extremely low prices to help keep some funds coming
in to help keep my BeckerArt classroom/studio/gallery open.
All the paintings are original works of art that are
10 x 14" in size and have been done as a demonstration in a classroom or as a live demonstration.
Thanks!
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For those wishing to send a donation do it to BeckerArt 3314 Pearl Street, McHenry, IL.60050 For any other info please email me at david@davidrbecker.com
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